Irish work less hours per week than most European employees

Sure there's a hard, whip cracking lesson to be learnt in there somewhere. Seeing as Denmark's unemployment rate is currently 3.8% lower than the UK's and that Denmark's fiscal position remains among the strongest in the EU not quite sure what it is though. With those figures you'd think the UK were proud of their teachers. Wouldn't know it to read their daily rags who place nurses and teachers on or around the same level of 'validity' as hoodies, shoplifters and villains. The worker has been made just as much a scapegoat there. What are these figures supposed to tell us then? That if Ireland would just pull up its bootstraps the rentier class and their Anglophile cronies in the media might just get away with scapegoating the Irish people again instead of standing accountable for their encroached corruption and "launder your money here" ponzi scheme sabre rattling.